After various requests, I've licensed my boost program_options extension code accumulator.hpp under the Boost Software License 1.0. It also now supports taking an argument on construction to store the value as well as the notifier function.

To recap: the accumulator type adds support for repeated options used to increment a particular value. Often this is used for verbosity, so that -v sets a verbosity level of one, -vvv a level of three.

My graphic design skills are poor, a fact all the more frustrating because I have a good enough eye to recognize when something looks bad, but not the aptitude to improve it.

Unlike less restrained people, I haven't inflicted the unreadable crimes of Word Art on my fellow humans since I was a teenager (though as previous work on implementing gradients for the MovieClip drawing API shows, when you have an excuse, playing with garish gradients is still fun!). But along with other design-incompetents, I'm fascinated by adventurous graphics and patterns.

As well as many stability fixes, Gnash 0.8.9 brought improvements in sound playback, gradient rendering, RTMP remoting support, and implementation of important parts of the BitmapData class.

For the next version, provisionally 0.8.10, there are already some exciting new improvements in the development repository: the Qt4 GUI supports clipboard setting and mouse wheel input, the BitmapData implementation is optimized and extended, and the XML class is finally fully implemented.

For the age of the internet, Flash has an extraordinarily long history, stretching for almost 15 years since its introduction in 1996. It's had to adapt continually during this time, developing from a simple animation format with limited user interaction to add network connections, video, camera and microphone access, remoting and two separate versions of an extensive scripting language.

The Windows 32 builds of Gnash available from this website now use an installer for easy installation and removal of Gnash. Like the executables themselves, the installer is created under Debian GNU/Linux using only free software.

Boost's program_options library does a lot of things (such as formatting help messages and adding default values) automatically, and it means different program modules can add and handle their own options. This is exactly what we need it for.

Its main disadvantage is incomplete documentation. There are some common command-line behaviours that aren't built in, which is fine as long as they can be added. And indeed program_options is fairly extensible and flexible, which in turn is fine as long as you have documentation to tell you how to do it.